What's Wrong Happening Bhai?

Yes, we don't have a situation like Lahore or Karachi where random street shootings are not uncommon. Nor do we live in Saudi Arabia you can be executed for handing out copies of the Bible. Nor is the India of today like Egypt where journalists are incarcerated on flimsy grounds and cases drag on for years despite all round international condemnations. But is this the yardstick by which we should measure a country which aspires for a permanent seat in the UN security council?

With what courage can we ask this question to the family of the 90-year-old Dalit man who died after being brutally attacked with an axe and set on fire for trying to enter a temple at Hamirpur in Uttar Pradesh? Or for that matter, what do we say to the family of Mohammad Akhlaq, victim of the worst ever organised mob crimes in the history of Independent India. Do we take the assassinations Dabholkar, Pansare and Kalburgi as random crimes committed for petty personal gains?

Connecting the dots is a skill that is increasingly important as one matures in a career and moves into more strategic roles. Those who "connect the dots" make a logical or implied connection between facts or disparate pieces of information in order to arrive at a conclusion. I don't think Anupam Kher lacks this skill. I think it is the other way around. As a professionally trained actor at the National School of Drama, he is reading lines given to him. All that he is doing is lending some conviction in the role.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Yes, we don't have a situation like Lahore or Karachi where random street shootings are not uncommon. Nor do we live in Saudi Arabia you can be executed for handing out copies of the Bible. Nor is the India of today like Egypt where journalists are incarcerated on flimsy grounds and cases drag on for years despite all round international condemnations. But is this the yardstick by which we should measure a country which aspires for a permanent seat in the UN security council?

With what courage can we ask this question to the family of the 90-year-old Dalit man who died after being brutally attacked with an axe and set on fire for trying to enter a temple at Hamirpur in Uttar Pradesh? Or for that matter, what do we say to the family of Mohammad Akhlaq, victim of the worst ever organised mob crimes in the history of Independent India. Do we take the assassinations Dabholkar, Pansare and Kalburgi as random crimes committed for petty personal gains?

Connecting the dots is a skill that is increasingly important as one matures in a career and moves into more strategic roles. Those who "connect the dots" make a logical or implied connection between facts or disparate pieces of information in order to arrive at a conclusion. I don't think Anupam Kher lacks this skill. I think it is the other way around. As a professionally trained actor at the National School of Drama, he is reading lines given to him. All that he is doing is lending some conviction in the role.

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TS, et al, this is precisely what I was talking about, don't try to sweep them under the rug as random incidents. There is a pattern here for everyone to see.